skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, posts on "Show HN" usually get the most attention within the first few hours of being posted. If a post doesn't catch on quickly, it might get buried under newer submissions and struggle to attract much interest.
However, the amount of attention a post gets can vary a lot depending on things like how appealing the project is to the specific interests of the Hacker News audience. The HN community tends to be particularly interested in novel technologies, programming projects, startups, and thought-provoking content. Posts that align well with these interests often perform better.
In the case of your tree planting carbon offset project, it's great that you're addressing an important environmental issue. However, the HN audience may be particularly interested in the technical details and accountability aspects. They would likely want to know specifics about how you track and verify the tree planting, what measures are in place to ensure the trees survive, and how transparent your reporting is. Providing maps, photos, GPS coordinates, or other detailed evidence of your planting work could help build confidence. Third-party certifications attesting to the legitimacy of your project could also boost credibility.
Other factors like the clarity and detail of your post, the time of day it was submitted, and a bit of luck can also play a role in how well it performs on "Show HN". Some posts might take longer to gain traction if they appeal to a niche subset of the audience or need more time to understand.
If your post didn't immediately grab people's interest, there's still a chance it could get some attention, but the odds do go down over time, especially if it doesn't strongly align with the typical interests of the HN community. You could try sharing the project on other relevant forums, subreddits, or social media channels that cater to audiences more focused on sustainability and carbon offsetting. You could also try reposting it to "Show HN" at a different time, maybe with a title and description that better highlights its technical and accountability aspects to appeal to the HN crowd.
Don't get too bummed out if your post doesn't get as much engagement as you wanted. Keep working on your project and refining how you present it to different audiences. If you stick with it and learn how to effectively market your work to the right communities, while providing the transparency they expect, you'll have a better shot at your submissions resonating with the people you're trying to reach. And even if a post doesn't go viral, you might still get some helpful feedback from the people who do check it out.
> But I don't see the need to know the size of the memory block that fulfilled your request.

If we don't know, we can't use anything except what we asked for. For some allocations that's not important, but e.g. Vec can just upgrade the capacity to match, buffering mechanisms often may just as well use the entire available buffer not just the part they specifically asked for.

> E.g. you request 200 bytes, a block of 256 bytes is actually allocated. Now you request with some other code 30 bytes. If the allocator had told you at allocation time "here are your 200 bytes, but just so you know, there's another 56" it could not hand the unused part of the 256 bytes to the next allocation.

You're assuming that the allocator is able to remember that these extra 56 bytes are available. That may or may not be practical, it's a shame if we have to otherwise throw the 56 bytes away.
> I'm not sure Martha Stewart actually did "hard time" - she spent what, a few months in jail? Try 10-20 years.

From what I recall of studies, and also from what I've heard from criminal defense lawyers, sending someone to jail for even very short amount of times is likely to have a meaningful effect on their behavior. Even sending a white-collar defendant to jail for a few hours can win a lot of cooperation from them; and studies seem to indicate that there's no meaningful difference between a year in prison and 20 years in prison.
Yes. It works on all buttons and scrollwheels on all mice I have ever tried (including several Logitech ones).
I guest kinda tired of Californians being the sole yard stick all of the US is measured by. I think it sucks to live like they do too. It sounds very stressful to live on the edge like a lot seem to.

But like my very poor sister can match you. I'm very middle class and can match you as well in anything but part-time work and rent control, but my rent has never been a significant burden for me. I take a week off every quarter on top of the standard set of holidays. I take off just to spend time with my kid at her school and it's fine. I know I'm pretty privileged, but given you brought up wealth like that, you're talking about pretty privileged Americans in California. My health insurance for me and family is $200/mo. It would $70 if it was just me. These kinds of benefits have been super common over my career.

There are a lot of Americans in less cool states who have a pretty decent life setup. It really varies by state. Like I don't even have student loans because there's a series of state granted scholarships in my home state that effectively mean that attending a state college is tuition free for residents, although you gotta figure out books and lodging.
What’s PE? (I’m a programmer).
problem is biomolecules, are "chaperoned" to fold properly, only specific regions such as, alpha helix, or beta pleatedsheet will fold de novo.

Chaperone (protein)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)
This is not the approach that the majority of coding interviews take. In my experience, it has been disinterested interviewers who are blatantly pretending to understand what they are asking. Any attempt to engage in the type of discussion you aim for is met with dead ends, because that's not what the Googled answer contains.

Your approach is a major outlier. You probably have many good candidates turning away, and for good reason, they have no idea that you are different to everyone else. Find a different way to do this, there are several other approaches.
It works on my Razer mouse that has a freaking 12 number keypad on the side, so I'd bet heavily, and there's a free demo.
I can only hope the models will be sophisticated enough and willing to explain their reasoning to us.
I’ve never known a time when Dell, IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Alien, weren’t lying through their teeth about battery times.

What time period are you thinking about for Apple? I’ve been using their laptops since the last G4 which is twenty years. They’ve always been substantially more accurate about battery times.
> Stepping back, the high-order bit here is an ML method is beating physically-based methods for accurately predicting the world.

I mean, it's just faster, no? I don't think anyone is claiming it's a more _accurate_ model of the universe.
No, my complaint is that it misunderstands where the threat actually resides, for the near foreseeable future. The threat is the traditional black hat bad actor. Poorly written legislation could harm these moat building AI startups too, who have been cynically advocating for such regulation, if their services are wantonly shutdown by law instead of simply employing traditional network security counter-measures. If you read my original reply completely you would have seen my mention of agents.
Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics due to blobs left by collision
Sure, that can happen I guess. I just wanted to say that I have seen happy users of Pixels for years :-).
It's drier than the second. Probably best start with second and catch-up on the C++20/23 topics later.
Depends on use case. Hybrid approaches have been dominating the M-Competitions, but there are generally small percentage differences in variance of statistical models vs machine learning models.

And exponentially higher cost for ML models.
I don't think it was ever pure research. The article talks about infinity labs, which is the co. Mercial branch for drug discovery.

I do agree that Google seems bad at commercialization, which is why I'm curious on what the strategy is.

It is hard to see them being paid consultants or effective partners for pharma companies, let alone developing drugs themselves.
Okay so what happens when I lose my keys and need new ones issued?

I have to go through the manual verification process and then issue revocation certs for my old keys?

How do I know what those keys were without a database of which key belongs to whom?
Pretty nice! I recall having used strace for this, and this is certainly nicer for that use case. I think I used it to determine how a certain file was built. Somehow it was easier to do it that way than understand the build system :).

What I did though was generate dot-files for graphviz to process. To that graph it's easy to add information about opened/created files as well.
Private equity (I have no idea, I'm also a programmer)
These are x86 boards, not ARM, for anyone else wondering.
It depends whether the value of science is human understanding or pure prediction. In some realms (for drug discovery, and other situations where we just need an answer and know what works and what doesn’t), pure prediction is all we really need. But if we could build an uninterpretable machine learning model that beats any hand-built traditional ‘physics’ model, would it really be physics?

Maybe there’ll be an intermediate era for a while where ML models outperform traditional analytical science, but then eventually we’ll still be able to find the (hopefully limited in number) principles from which it can all be derived. I don’t think we’ll ever find that Occam’s razor is no use to us.
They are forgetting that pulleys can be coaxial.
The famous South Park episode was a monocycle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_%28South_Park%29
In a little surfing, I've turned up https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/FyeO9... but not a picture from a little later that I know existed in hardcopy (probably from shortly after 29.12.1970?) of Dr. Leary (in the snow?) at a ski station, celebrating the refusal of the request for his extradition.

Who's got my miracle?

Lagniappe: (was this real blotter?) https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTI5M2YyYTctNDBjZS00...
Very cool! Thanks for sharing mydumper
I think this takes too narrow a view of "artist". I know artists who are still doing their thing and selling through traditional routes and very happy to do so. This article describes art as mass market business.
> Thrilled to announce AlphaFold 3 which can predict the structures and interactions of nearly all of life’s molecules with state-of-the-art accuracy including proteins, DNA and RNA. [1]

There's a slight mismatch between the blog's title and Demis Hassabis' tweet, where he uses "nearly all".

The blog's title suggests that it's a 100% solved problem.

[1] https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/1788229162563420560
Built in to a SoC* e.g. a 2060 from 5 years ago had double that in tensor cores it just wasn't part of the SoC. Great improvement for its type/application, dubious marketing claim with the wording.

And it's really not that great even though it's a welcomed improvement - Microsoft is pushing 45 TOPs as the baseline, you just can't get that in an APU yet (well, at least for the next couple months).
Maybe in your dreams. Few counter points:

- Austria-Hungaria was a multi ethnic, multi religious, multinational entity

- Similar Holy Roman Empire before

- House of Habsburgs at some point ruled parts of middle Europe, some Netherlands and Spain

- Spain is a multi-national state till today, with strong tensions

- Germany was for a long time only a loose group of small countries

- Denmark ruling other Scandinavian countries

- Religious wars devastated Europe for centuries

- Social cohesion? Ever heard of French Revolution and hundred other uprisings?

- Even though British Isles were not invaded after 1066 they had their fair share of infighting. Ask around Northern Ireland about peaceful religious unity

Ethnostates are very recent occurrence and even then it's not 100%. The shared history is a history of non-stop wars. Europe was rich for all other reasons. Some noble (preserving Greco-Roman legacy, enlightenment, birth of democratic ideas etc), some external (mild climate, resources), some not so noble (exploiting colonies).
> not that it matters since it seems the GPU where most of the AI workload is handled anyway

GPUs can also have AI-specific compute (e.g., Nvidia’s tensor cores.)
> Covered models are those trained on more than 10²⁶ flops (a measure of computing power that, at current prices, is estimated to cost between tens and hundreds of millions of dollars), or projected to have similar performance on benchmarks used to evaluate state of the art foundation models. If your model was trained on less than 10²⁶ flops and doesn't outperform those that were? It is not a covered model.

I think the number needs to be indexed to some measure of readily available consumer hardware.

Otherwise, there are lots of computing capabilities that were estimated to cost 10s or millions of dollars (for example, the first hard drives were tens of thousands of dollars for a few megabytes and a terabyte of storage would have seemed like an astronomical amount projected at 10s of millions of dollars. Also for a long time, a teraflop was considered to be an astronomical amount of computing power which a high end desktop or laptop can now easily hit).
My favorite question to ask these "see how you think" types when it's my turn is:

What is the most impressive thing you've ever done?

Just watch how they struggle with this one. I've never met anyone slinging code tests who is so curious in "how we think" that has ever made anything interesting whether it's code, design, music, a company, anything. It's just a pretentious statement made by gatekeeping noobs who love to interview, nothing more.

I tried to save your comment lol
>So doesn't that mean the identity provider (trust anchor?) who verified the age now has a list of which sites you're using your certs on sinc eyou must define a reciever (recipient domain?)? Maybe you can explain the flow in an example?

When a trust anchor does verification and issue you the certificate, you get a PEM file, their connection to the process is done. Yes they know who you are but can't track what you do with the certificate after they issue it to you.

On the other hand if you were to use that certificate to commit a crime, the signature will provide access to the trust chain, thus law enforcement could use it to find you by reaching out to the issuer. This is a feature not a bug, it combines privacy and accountability, no different from conventional non-digital world expectations.

The use of receiver id, happens after you have the certificate, the issuer is not involved. The receiver id is for the benefit of the receivers of signatures from your certificate, it allows them establish a sticky anonymous cryptographic identity for you without knowing who you are, this is a way again to have privacy while having accountability. This demo touches on the approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92gu4mxHmTY

Reach me via my profile if you're interested in knowing more.
How well does this work with lossy compression? I would trust only lossless formats and analog with digital data encoded as audio, but I have zero hands-on experience with this
You should really read your own link - the part where he admits he made that whole story up. Im gonna guess failing some basic coding is not what tanked him. He still thinks they owe him the job though because he’s kinda famous and did a popular project in a language that Google doesn’t use, so that’s cute.

I also dont see how this one anecdote (even if it was true) invalidates anything I said above. You’re gonna have false negatives in any system you chose unless you just wave everyone in
Until moving to Windows, this made my mouse on macOS bearable. Removed all accel with 1600 sens so that when I went from macOS for work to Windows for gaming back to macOS for work, I wouldn't lose my mind. Nowadays I just stick to Windows because WSL2 is pretty rad. But SteerMouse saved my sanity for quite a few years.
> The most terrifying concept is still the good old undefined behavior.

I think people tend to parrot undefined behavior as if it's some kind of gotcha when in practice this only means two things:

* Don't write code that you didn't bothered to understand what it does,

* You bothered to check what your implementation does and decided to write implementation-specific code for your own personal reasons.

By definition, each and every single programming language in existence which is not specified in an official reference document is comprised exclusively of undefined behavior. Why? Because none of it's expected behavior is defined. That's what these nonsensical discussions boil down to.

So why is this somehow expected to be such an insurmountable gotcha with C++ although the rest of the world uses languages which are entirely undefined without any concern?

Boggles the mind.
The PE [0] is an American engineering exam. You first take the FE [1], then must apprentice under someone for some length of time (I think ten years) to be allowed to take the PE. Then, once you pass that, you're considered a professional engineer.

[0]: https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/
[1]: https://ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/
If their goal was to get more people to the site, and coming back to use it regularly… they’d make the site quick and easy to use with useful features.

Instead, they add all this stuff for SEO reasons. If they can be at the top of Google, they don’t have to worry about people coming back in their own, Google will keep sending them over.

In an age where few people use bookmarks anymore, many sites rely on SEO get regular traffic.

Then, of course, the other half is stuff to monetize the site. Ads, newsletter sign up modals, tracking cookies and the warnings that come with them, registration prompts, etc.
It's a formal certification exam for engineering disciplines that need licensing. You usually have to pass two exams – FE (foundations of engineering) and PE (principles of engineering) before you can even be considered for a license.
I suppose. Good question.

Gloating isn't permitted.

Most of the discussion and instruction are related to being able to integrate well with others.

I'm weird. Everyone is a little odd. Quirks aren't wrong but can be unattractive or situational inappropriate. Guidance is given.
Like this idea. Reminded me of Aestiva HTML/OS. The Array Desktop (WUI) had, if I recall correctly, a File Manager, Text Editor, IDE, Calendar, and a scheduler.
To state the obvious: If you go there (or require diplomas and/or licenses to access material) the requirements won't be static enough to rule out obvious stupid shit being included.
Talking Education with Corey Angelis and Matthew Nielsen
I had to work my ass off on my Fujitsu Lifebook to get 90% of the estimate, even on Linux. I even worked on a kernel patch for the Transmeta CPU, based on unexploited settings in the CPU documentation, but it came to no or negligible difference in power draw, which I suppose is why Linus didn’t do it in the first place.
Except... Here is an open letter from the Jewish students at Columbia. Their experience there sounds pretty terrifying. Imagine yourself going through these experiences:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRQgyDhIjZup...

Do leftists who call for Israelis to "return to Europe" not know the A) centuries of stark, genocidal oppression against Jews in Europe nor B) that many Israeli Jews are in Israel because they have been expelled from Arab and Middle-East countries where their ancestors have lived for centuries? There is no "back home" to go to for these people.

One could argue these Western leftists earnestly care for Palestinians, but why? Why do they care about these particular Arabs and not the 1M+ other deaths of Muslims in current conflicts? What is the difference?

When I look back at the literally genocidal pograms by Levantine Arabs against Levantine Jews in an unbroken timeline of violence from 1850s, continuing through the 1920s and al-Husseini's agreements with Hitler in WW2, and the continuing violence right now, the repeated rejections of compromise and peace, the insistence on "all the land or death", is super clear to me that the "pro-Palestine" movement is and has always been genocidal. It is not and has never been about sovereignty or self-determination. Do Western leftists not know this? Do they not care? They certainly don't want to hear about it.
Collision libraries and fluid libraries have had baked-in memorized look-up tables that were generated with ML methods nearly a decade ago.

World is still here, although the Matrix/metaverse is becoming more attractive daily.
It certainly has lower energy losses than this geared setup.
Half of Google's white-collar staff 'does no real work,' Silicon Valley VC says
I went to the U.S. and am making more money than I ever could have in Canada and living in a house that I never could have afforded. The tuition per kid that I’m paying right now for elementary school is more than my salary that I was earning in Canada.

The Canadian brain drain is real and that’s because the politicians completely fucked up what we had previously which was a dominance in telecommunications. Ottawa could have truly been a “Silicon Valley of the North” but they fucked it up and couldn’t get around the idea that you have to grow prosperity, not tax people to death.

25 years later the gap between Canada and the U.S. is immense in terms of technical excellence and I don’t regret my decision at all to leave. I’m not going to sit around and become a slave to the worthless politicians, both Liberal and PC so they can siphon all my wealth like the Matrix in some delusional belief that it’s “patriotic”.
Last month he stood before the SpaceX staff in Boca Chica and outlined how he still believes that he will get 1 million people on Mars by the 2050s. U til they can start producing 100’s of Starships, this is not even remotely realistic. Sending thousands of people to Mars in the next 5 years is not a serious or realistic idea.
The point was companies usually considered tier 1 like Google did not have such compensation.

What makes Lyft higher quality than Google?
Social Media and Other Status Games
It's bucket sort, and parent is suggesting insertion sort within each bucket as the pre-merge step.

Say you're sorting alphabetically by title. You make one bucket per letter- put books into their respective bucket based on first letter of title. Then sort using insertion sort within each bucket. Then you're done.

(insertion sort is the human natural one- look for where the next one goes based on what you have so far and insert)

Same works for other heuristics.
Science has always given us better, but error prone tooling to see further and make better guesses. There is still a scientific test. In a clinical trial, is this new drug safe and effective.
> Best OS

I like apple hardware, but their OS is fucking atrocious. In the year 2024 it still doesn't have a native volume mixer, or any kind of sensible window management shortcuts. Half the things on it have to be fixed with paid software. Complete joke of an OS, if it were up to me I'd stick a linux distro on top of the hardware and be happy
I wonder if it’s like webpages. The numbers are calculated before marketing adds the crapware and ruins all of your hard work.
Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
First-sale doctrine needs a serious update for electronic content. It's too important a principle for us to lose.

Content licensing, as opposed to outright sale, is a cancer spreading through our collective culture. Ownership will cease to have any meaning at this rate.
Asterisk/Zvi on California's AI Bill
There is at least some difference between a monitored server and a privately ran one, if negative consequences are possible